Rae wants that tag of champion

SIMPLY gaining promotion from Division One will not be enough for Alex Rae, he wants to return to the Premiership as a champion. The Wolves midfielder was the architect of this comprehensive win at Molineux.

He prodded home the opener on 26 minutes after goalkeeper Vince Bartram had spilled Mark Kennedy's fierce drive. Seconds before half-time Rae's astute cross was nodded home by Nathan Blake at the far post.

With nine games to play, Wolves have a healthy 10-point advantage over third-place West Bromwich, the team most likely to deny them automatic promotion.

For Rae, signed from Sunderland for £1.2 million in September, seeing off second-place Manchester City is almost as important. "I have already got one of those medals and I want another," he said.

"It was a big step coming down to this division and I knew it would be a scrap. The side I won the title with at Sunderland were exceptional. We were a record-breaking team."